Institute of Sociology

Silke Büchau, Dr.

Research associate


Office

Wilhelmstraße 36 (Hegelbau), room 104
72074 Tübingen
Email: silke.buechauspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

 

Office hours
by email appointment.

Short biography

since April 2021
Research assistant

in the DFG-project “Family policy information, gender ideologies and normative judgements of the gender division of labour”.

04/2019-07/2023
Doctorate in Sociology, University of Tübingen

Titel „Parenthood, relationship processes and family policy in Germany“ (magna cum laude)

09/2016–01/2019
Master of Arts in Sociology, University of Mannheim

Master’s thesis: “Work-family life courses and health in later life” (grade: 1,0)

10/2013–08/2016
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with minor in French, University of Hamburg

Bachelor’s thesis: “Influence of social structural characteristics and environmental attitudes on environmental behaviour” (grade: 1,0)

09/2015–01/2016
Semester abroad

Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense


Research interests

  • Division of labour
  • Family and early childhood education policy
  • Quantitative methods

Publications

Marie-Fleur Philipp, Silke Büchau, Pia S Schober, Who Should Scale Back? Experimental Evidence on Employer Support for Part-Time Employment and Working Hours Norms for Couples with Young Children, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 2023;, jxad034,https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxad034

Büchau, S., Philipp, M.-F., Schober, P. S., & Spiess, C. K. (2023). Day care availability and awareness of gendered economic risks: How they shape work and care norms. Journal of European Social Policy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287231219215

Büchau, S. (2023) Relationship processes, family polices and the parental division of labour in Germany, Dissertation, Social Sciences (online). http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-84617

Philipp, M.F., Büchau, S., Schober, P.S. & Spiess, C.K. (2023) Parental leave policies, take-up consequences and changing normative beliefs: evidence
from a survey experiment, Gender & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432231176084

S. Schober, P., & Büchau, S. (2022). "Chapter 11: How parenting leaves impact parental employment, family work, and gender norms: a literature review". In Research Handbook on Leave Policy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved Feb 28, 2023, from
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/book/9781800372214/book-part-9781800372214-21.xml

Büchau, S., Philipp, M.F., Schober, P. S., Spiess, C.K. (2022): Day care availability and awareness of gendered economic risks: How they shape work and care norms. BiB Working Paper 7/2022. Wiesbaden: Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung.

Schober, P.S., Büchau, S., Philipp, M.S., C.K. Spiess, Bozoyan, C., & Schmiedeberg, C. (2022): The Factorial Survey Experiment on "Normative Judgements of Work-Care Arrangements" in the German Family Panel. pairfam Technical Paper No. 19. https://doi.org/10.5282/ubm/epub.92001

Büchau, S., Schober, P. S., & Becker, D. (2021). Couples’ Communication Behaviour and the Gender Division of Family Work Across the Transition to Parenthood. Journal of Family Issues, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X211055111

Presentations

2022:

Who should scale back? Experimental evidence on employer support of part-time employment and working hours norms for couples with young children, 7th pairfam Interdisciplinary International Conference, online, May 2022

2021:

Policy information and normative judgements of work-care arrangements - Experimental evidence from Germany, DGS family sociology autumn conference, online, November 2021

Day care policy information and normative judgements of work-care arrangements
- Experimental evidence from Germany -, International User Conference of the German Family Panel pairfam, online, September 2021

The role of paternal involvement in childcare for maternal employment in Germany – Under which circumstances?, DGS family sociology spring conference, online, March 2021

2020:

The role of father’s early involvement in family work for mother’s employment in Germany – Under which circumstances?, The European Network for Social Policy Analysis, PhD online seminar, September 2020

Couples’ communication and the gender division of family work across the transition to parenthood in Germany, European Consortium of Sociological Research Online Conference, July 2020

Couples’ communication and the gender division of family work across the transition to parenthood in Germany, Swedish Institute for Social Research, online, April 2020

Do partners’ gender ideologies and communication behaviour predict the division of housework across the transition to parenthood?, Workshop on Inequality processes at the University of Tübingen, January 2020

Other

Wasmer, M., Kwasniok, S., & Kialunda, A. (2018). Welche Gruppen werden mit der Formulierung "in Deutschland lebende Ausländer" assoziiert? Entwicklung eines Kategorienschemas zu einer offenen Frage im ALLBUS 2016. (GESIS Papers, 2018/12). Köln: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.57420